Comments on: Who? <s>Mike Jones</s>PelĂ© http://idolator.com/290094/who-smike-jonesspele Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:30:15 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: PeterBjorn&Yawn http://idolator.com/290094/who-smike-jonesspele/comment-page-1#comment-246192 PeterBjorn&Yawn Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:16:30 +0000 821bbc841266faae528704f3976d3fa5#comment-246192 <p> I know that its your job as internet bridge trolls to be snarky and knee-jerk... but Bad Brains, the Rapture, Polyphonic Spree, and RJD2 are on there as well. Bad Brains!</p> I know that its your job as internet bridge trolls to be snarky and knee-jerk… but Bad Brains, the Rapture, Polyphonic Spree, and RJD2 are on there as well. Bad Brains!

]]> By: MikeToole http://idolator.com/290094/who-smike-jonesspele/comment-page-1#comment-246202 MikeToole Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:18:52 +0000 821bbc841266faae528704f3976d3fa5#comment-246202 <p> People aren't watching MLS on television in big numbers yet, but the interest is snowballing-- the league has a profitable TV deal for the first time this year, with ESPN and Telefutura on board. All of this was signed in the pre-Beckham era to boot, so it's not just down to hype.</p> <p> This initiative by Adidias is a follow-up to last year's MLS Mashups, in which a song was composed for the teams in the playoffs by taking local bands and remixing them "head to head"-- i.e. New England played Chicago in the semifinal, so we got a Boston act and a Chicago act mixed up together (these were not major artists).</p> <p> I'm OK with this, as it's the sort of marketing the league has never had. Incidentally, if anyone out there likes the sport and has an MLS team in their neighborhood, go and see a game. You don't know what you're missing!</p> People aren’t watching MLS on television in big numbers yet, but the interest is snowballing– the league has a profitable TV deal for the first time this year, with ESPN and Telefutura on board. All of this was signed in the pre-Beckham era to boot, so it’s not just down to hype.

This initiative by Adidias is a follow-up to last year’s MLS Mashups, in which a song was composed for the teams in the playoffs by taking local bands and remixing them “head to head”– i.e. New England played Chicago in the semifinal, so we got a Boston act and a Chicago act mixed up together (these were not major artists).

I’m OK with this, as it’s the sort of marketing the league has never had. Incidentally, if anyone out there likes the sport and has an MLS team in their neighborhood, go and see a game. You don’t know what you’re missing!

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